228 – Sophie White & An Island of Formless Dread
Ready to hear a conversation about some devastatingly dark things? Sophie White and I have got you covered! In this expansive chat, we talk about her calculatingly distressing novel, Where I End –...
25 Feb 20251h 27min
227 – Kirsty Logan & Queer as in F**K You
The title speaks volumes this week. It’s a mission statement. Kirsty Logan is the master of certain kind of edgy, on-the-margins fiction, Queer in every meaning of the word. She can be witchy and fo...
18 Feb 20251h 16min
226 – Virginia Feito & A Good Old-Fashioned Bad Girl
Time to misbehave. Virginia Feito’s new novel, Victorian Psycho, is all about good behaviour, positive standards and polite conduct…and what happens when you flout all that, by – I dunno – slaughter...
11 Feb 20251h 18min
225 – Lucy Rose & The Cumbrian Chainsaw Massacre
Are you hungry? Depending on your…erm… tastes, the next hour of conversation will do strange things to your appetite. Our guest is Lucy Rose, whose debut novel, The Lamb renders muscle and fat and s...
4 Feb 20251h 17min
Let Us Palaver #1 – The Gunslinger Debrief
Here is the first Let Us Palaver minisode – in which Nat Cassidy and I kick Chris off the call, and get to grips with the inner workings of The Dark Tower, without spoiling anything for him, or any of...
3 Feb 202525min
The Dark Tower Deep Dive #1 – The Gunslinger
“The man in black fled across the desert, and the podcaster followed…” Welcome to the start of what is sure to be an epic journey. Step by step, over more than a dozen episodes, Talking Scared will ...
28 Jan 20252h 11min
Off Book #6 – Dutch Marich & Horror in the High Desert
The latest Off Book episode takes you out to the American desert and leaves you there, cold, alone and confused. We’re speaking with Dutch Marich, the surprisingly lovely mind behind the most terrify...
24 Jan 20251h 9min
224 – Susan Barker & The Denial of Death
Tyranny is the key this week on Talking Scared this week. How fitting. Susan Barker’s Old Soul is a globe-trotting, decade-spanning supernatural tour of autocracies, from behind the Iron Curtain to ...
21 Jan 20251h 7min
